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Update NEWS file for 4.6.0 release
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---------------- VERSION 4.6.0 --------------
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- A new Message content viewer has been added to the content viewers section of
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the main application window to provide an examiner with tabs for looking at:
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message headers; content as raw text, HTML, or RTF; and attachments.
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- A new Communications tool has been added to the Tools menu to supply an
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examiner with a separate three part view consisting of: a filtered, tabular
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display of the various accounts (email, Facebook, Twitter, etc.) discovered by
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the ingest modules, a tabular view of the messages exchanged between the
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accounts, and a Message content viewer for the individual messages.
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- Hash sets may now be stored either locally or in the Central Repository.
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- An ingest module that uses file entropy to flag possibly encrypted files has
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been added as a core file-level ingest module.
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- The file names and organization of HTML reports have been changed to make it
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easier to find and open these reports outside of the application.
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- The version of Tika used by the application has been upgraded to version 1.17
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and the amount of memory consumed by Tika has been reduced significantly by
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configuring it to use the new SAX parsers exclusively.
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- A live triage feature has been added that copies the application executable to
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a USB drive that can then be used for live analysis of another system.
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- Memory leaks and other issues revealed by fuzzing the SleuthKit have
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been fixed.
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- The number of application log files generated before log rollover is now
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user-configurable to enable retention of more logs to better support enterprise
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installations that are running auto ingest.
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- Preliminary build file and code changes aimed at supporting easy creation of
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Linux and OS-X binary distribution packages are in place.
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- Better typing of larger slack files has been added to the file type detection
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ingest module.
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- The maximum number of Solr connections and the maximum number of
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file ingest threads allowed have both been increased.
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- The default setting for JVM memory for 64-bit Windows installations has been
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increased to 4 GB, and the user can adjust the JVM memory setting via the
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Application options panel.
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- The embedded file extractor now uses Tika for new form MS Office documents,
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which dramatically reduces the memory required for processing Excel spreadsheets.
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- The amount of memory required for processing keyword hits has been reduced.
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- Periodic keyword search during ingest now has logic to dynamically increase
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the interval between searches when searches are taking longer than the
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user-configured periodic search interval to complete, thus preventing continuous
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searching.
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- Keyword search has been made more responsive to both search and ingest job
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cancellation.
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- The use of the terminology "known bad" has been replaced by "notable."
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- Tag definitions now have a "notable" property indicating that tagged content
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and results should be marked as notable in the Central Repository.
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- Users can now enter more information about cases including examiner contact
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info, organization info, and notes.
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- A new "Databases" category has been added to the Views, File Types, By
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Extension ree.
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- Examiner mode for an enterprise installation no longer requires a restart and
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a single dialog that lists all multi-user cases is provided; selecting a row in
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the dialog and beginning to type opens a search box that allows an examiner to
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search for cases by name, etc., and the columns in the tabular view presented by
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the dialog can be reordered or hidden.
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- An auto ingest data source processor that extracts data sources from archive
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files specified as data sources via auto ingest job manifests has been added.
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- Auto ingest job metrics are collected and can be displayed for a
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user-specified time period using a button on either the auto dashboard or the
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auto ingest control panel.
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- Sorting by columns has been added to both the auto ingest control panel and
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the auto ingest dashboard.
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- The row highlight color for tagged items in the Results table view has been
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changed for better visibility.
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- Assorted small enhancements and bug fixes are included.
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---------------- VERSION 4.5.0 --------------
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- Memory usage has been reduced to improve support for very large cases.
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- The central repository and correlation engine introduced in version 4.4.1 have

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